In many economic settings, the variable of interest is often a fraction or a proportion, being
defined only on the unit interval. The bounded nature of such variables and, in some cases …

Doubly bounded continuous data are common in the social and behavioral sciences.
Examples include judged probabilities, confidence ratings, derived proportions such as …

Abstract Many banks in Saudi Arabia are starting to offer banking services through mobile
phones. However, not many studies investigate the factors that may help the bankers to …

Uncorrectable skew and heteroscedasticity are among the “lemons” of psychological data,
yet many important variables naturally exhibit these properties. For scales with a lower and …

This paper proposes a general class of regression models for continuous proportions when
the data contain zeros or ones. The proposed class of models assumes that the response …

In this article, we extend the beta regression model proposed by Ferrari and Cribari-Neto
(2004), which is generally useful in situations where the response is restricted to the …

This book introduces fuzzy set theory to social science researchers. Fuzzy sets are
categories with blurred boundaries. With classical sets, objects are either in the set or not …

Environmental, social, and governance (ESG) criteria are increasingly important in all fields
of economics. However, despite increasing interest from policy makers and financial …

The empirical literature on the relationship between capital structure and firm cash flow
volatility is inconclusive. We explore this relationship using several measures of a firm's cash …

Numerous papers in finance study the conditional mean of some proportion or fraction with a
mass point at zero. We argue that most, if not all, of these studies use mis-specified statistical …